* Derrik Gibson walks.
* Jonathan Hee out on a sacrifice bunt, pitcher Stephen Clyne to first baseman Ike Davis. Derrik Gibson to 2nd.
* Ronald Bermudez grounds out, third baseman Jose Jimenez to first baseman Ike Davis.
* Mitch Dening singles on a ground ball to shortstop Juan Lagares. Derrik Gibson scores. Mitch Dening to 2nd. Throwing error by shortstop Juan Lagares.
* Stephen Clyne intentionally walks Luis Sumoza.
* Deshaun Brooks grounds into a force out, first baseman Ike Davis to catcher Cesar Cordido. Mitch Dening scores. Luis Sumoza out at home. Deshaun Brooks advances to 1st, on throwing error by third baseman Jose Jimenez.

•THE HIGHLIGHTS: Jason Lane greeted right-hander Brian Bass, just down from the Minnesota Twins, with a two-run homer to left in the first inning. Lane signed with on Aug. 19 after being granted his release from the New York Yankees the day before.

Right-hander Michael Bowden pitched a great game but was denied his first Triple-A win when reliever Kyle Snider served up a two-run homer to Matt Macri in the seventh inning, pushing Rochester in front, 4-3. Bowden allowed three runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings. He walked none and struck out six but remains 0-3.

•ON TO POSTSEASON: Despite the loss, the PawSox clinched their first playoff berth since 2003 because Toledo also lost. Pawtucket will meet Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in a best-of-five series beginning Sept. 3. Tickets for all possible games at McCoy Stadium are on sale at the stadium box office.

Jorge Jimenez hit a three-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning Saturday night to lift the Portland Sea Dogs to a 5-2 victory over the Harrisburg Senators.

With the Sea Dogs trailing 2-1, Harrisburg reliever Josh Perrault retired the first two batters in the top of the eighth before he walked Zach Daeges. Adam Carr replaced Perrault and gave up a single to Aaron Bates, and Jimenez followed with a home run to right.

Argenis Diaz added an RBI single in the ninth for the Sea Dogs, who maintained a two-game lead over Binghamton for the second playoff spot in the Eastern League's Northern Division.

The man stood by Josh Reddick, teaching. He was missing half of his left arm, and had only three fingers on his right hand, but he showed Josh Reddick how to hit a baseball.

The lesson concerned fundamentals and being aggressive.

"If you see a pitch you like, go after it," Reddick was told during those daily sessions in the backyard of his home in Guyton, Ga.

Reddick listened well to his father, learning baseball and a boatload of lessons about life.

"My dad is a major influence in my life," said Reddick, 21, the Portland Sea Dogs center fielder.

Kenny Reddick was maimed on the job while working on a power line when Josh was 1. The accident did not stop him from spending time with his sons, including running those baseball drills.

In the aftermath of those lessons, Josh Reddick has used talent and hard work to transform himself from being an unknown 17th-round draft pick in 2006 to becoming one of the top outfield prospects of the Boston Red Sox.

"The ball explodes off his bat," said Sea Dogs hitting coach Dave Joppie.

In the outfield, Reddick runs down balls and throws runners out. He recorded 19 outfield assists last year and already has 22 this season, which included stops at Class A Greenville and Lancaster.

With all the Red Sox like about Reddick, they are tweaking his approach at the plate.

It's a case of the aggressive Reddick joining a club that tells its hitters to be patient.

"They preached it to me about going up there and working the count," Reddick said. "They want me to see pitches that I would normally swing at, and just let them go by."

When Reddick says this, a slight disdain comes through. Letting a hittable pitch go by?

"It's been a slow process for me, and frustrating," Reddick said. "It's nothing I've been accustomed to my whole life."

Boston wants Reddick to learn the difference between a hittable pitch and one he can really swat.

"It's a subtle adjustment that will happen over time," said Ben Cherington, Boston's vice president in charge of player personnel. "We're not changing what Josh Reddick is as a hitter. He's wired aggressively. We're not looking to change that and nor should he. It's just a subtle adjustment of recognizing those pitches he can really drive – be aggressive on those pitches and be willing to wait for those pitches to come."

Once again it was the bottom of the order that got things rolling in a JetHawks rally. Matt Sheely faked a bunt to pull in the third baseman, then singled past him to start the inning. A single by Jason Place and a bunt hit by Kris Negron loaded the bases with no one out. Ryan Kalish hit a ball that could have been a double play, but the Nuts through the ball away for an error, allowing place to score the tying run and sending Kalish to second base. He then scored on the winning hit, a single by Michael Jones that gave Lancaster the lead.

The largest crowd of the season at Fluor Field saw old-time baseball at its best Saturday night as the Greenville Drive defeated the Augusta GreenJackets 2-1, giving the 6,707 fans in attendance an old-fashioned pitchers' duel.

Greenville starter Terumasa Matsuo (6-5) went six innings, giving up just one earned run and striking out six, to pick up the win over Augusta starter Scott Barnes, who also went six innings (retiring 17 in a row at one point) and gave up both Greenville runs ó one earned ó despite striking out 14.

"It was not my best outing," Matsuo, speaking through an interpreter, said of the win. "It was unusual, because of the number of fly balls I gave up. But it was good I did not give up any walks because walks create unnecessary runs. My goal was to at least hand over the last inning with a tie, and I did my job."

The Drive scored all the runs they would need in the bottom of the first inning. After leadoff hitter David Mailman's grounder was bobbled at short for an error, Rafael Cabreja followed that with a double, and Zach Penprase and Oscar Tejeda each had RBI groundouts for a 2-0 lead.

Matsuo gave up his lone run in the third inning, but the tying run was thrown out at the plate by left fielder Jared Stanley to end the inning. Lance McClain pitched two scoreless innings before giving way to Felix Ventura in the ninth, who picked up his 19th save of the season.

The Lowell Spinners took another step toward the New York/Penn League Stedler Division championship -- and a post-season playoff berth -- as they plated a pair of unearned runs in the top of the ninth to edge the Brooklyn Cyclones, 2-1, Saturday night.

Robert Romero, making his first Spinners appearance after being released by the Angels in April and picked up by the Red Sox as a free agent, was impressive in relief. The 23-year-old retired Brooklyn 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth and fanned four of the six batters he faced during his stint.

The win reduced Lowell's magic number to clinch the division title to eight, and left them 8 1/2 games ahead of second-place Oneonta pending results of later games.

The Spinners managed only three hits in the game -- the third straight low-scoring nailbiter between these teams -- with one by Mitch Dening helping the ninth-inning rally. Two infield throwing errors by the Cyclones were also huge in the win.